3.6 The time dilation dispute

As we have seen in the previous sections, there is a mutual warp between different frames of reference. Objectively, both reference frames are constantly taking shortcuts in the perceived time within the other reference frame, but this fact is of no importance as long as no object changes its velocity — its frame of reference.

When the bouncing light rays in the above segments of simulation charts are compared, both reference frames appear to be of equal vertical size. In fact, they are completely identical, apart from being horizontally flipped. With this in mind, it appears strange to say that velocity itself transforms a time dimension when the sizes of the vertical axes objectively do not differ. Considering velocity on its own to be the cause of a phenomenon called velocity time dilation appears to be pedagogically disadvantageous. To acquire time dilation, an object must change its synchronized frame of reference.

With this understood, it is important to note that the mathematics of time dilation is consistent between the Momentary Relativity Model (MRM) and Special Relativity (SR). It is the underlying explanation that differs.

In the MRM, the vertical axis is a plot of every now as the result of geometric properties in every previous now. Time is a relative process that can be perceived differently if objects change their frames of reference. To understand whether objects become time dilated with respect to each other, we must follow their history as they perform various actions over time. The MRM favors relativistic kinematics to understand time dilation. According to the MRM, the universe can be equated to a highly complex simulation.

In SR, the vertical axis is a transformable dimension, a solution that makes it possible to calculate the distances to various events in space and time. SR produces the same charts as presented above, but it would also hold that this mathematical description is the truth about the past and the future. SR would not agree that these transformations are only a convenient mathematical description of the possible measurable results of relative positions and relative movement. According to SR, the universe can be equated to a highly complex mathematical formula.